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SUTHERLAND, James. The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter, London: Ricahrd Clay & Sons, Ltd. for Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1912. 8° (216 x 138mm). Half title, 2pp. publisher's advertisements, frontispiece, illustrations, some full-page. Original blue cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt, dust-jacket, top edges gilt (dust-jacket torn with slight loss). Provenance: Nathaniel Cushing Nash (bookplate, signature). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION with the rare dust-jacket. Czech p.160: "one of the true classics of African big-game hunting."
STIGAND, Chauncey Hugh. Hunting the Elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings ... with an introduction by ... Theodore Roosevelt, New York: 1913. 8° (218 x 140mm). Half-title, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end, frontispiece and 15 plates, folding letterpress table, illustrations. Original blue cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt, top edges gilt. Provenance: Nathaniel Cushing Nash (bookplate). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Czech p.156: "A pre-eminent elephant hunting title."
BELL, Walter Dalrymple Maitland. The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, London: 1923. 4° (247 x 188mm). Half title, title in red and black, plates, illustrations. Original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket (spine of binding somewhat discoloured). FIRST EDITION. Czech p.15.
With 3 other books on elephant hunting, Denis D. Lyell's The African Elephant and its Hunters (London, 1924), The Life of an Elephant ... new edition (London, 1897) and C. F. Holder's The Ivory King. A Popular History of the Elephant and its Allies (New York, 1886). (6)
STIGAND, Chauncey Hugh. Hunting the Elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings ... with an introduction by ... Theodore Roosevelt, New York: 1913. 8° (218 x 140mm). Half-title, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end, frontispiece and 15 plates, folding letterpress table, illustrations. Original blue cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt, top edges gilt. Provenance: Nathaniel Cushing Nash (bookplate). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Czech p.156: "A pre-eminent elephant hunting title."
BELL, Walter Dalrymple Maitland. The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, London: 1923. 4° (247 x 188mm). Half title, title in red and black, plates, illustrations. Original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket (spine of binding somewhat discoloured). FIRST EDITION. Czech p.15.
With 3 other books on elephant hunting, Denis D. Lyell's The African Elephant and its Hunters (London, 1924), The Life of an Elephant ... new edition (London, 1897) and C. F. Holder's The Ivory King. A Popular History of the Elephant and its Allies (New York, 1886). (6)
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